Meanwhile, 44 percent backed the American tradition of competing branches of government as a model, if sometimes āfrustrating,ā system.
Why would people want to live under an authoritarianās thumb? Itās rooted, experts say, in a psychological need for securityāreal or perceivedāand a desire for conformity, a goal that becomes even more acute as the country undergoes dramatic demographic and social changes. People also like to obey a strong leader who will protect the groupāespecially if it is the ārightā group whose interests will be protected. Recall the Trump supporter who, during the 2019 government shutdown, complained, āHeās not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.ā
From this and other polls it really does seem that most countries would be immeasurably improved if a good third of the population were to spontaneously combust.
I think I know which third it should be.
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Bad news: the 1/3 authoritarian segment of society seems to be a human trait. Culture determines how the trait is expressed.
So fire them into the sun but statistically the hierarchically-minded, active-amygdala, contrarian and cruel segments of the genome will just always be there.
This is probably the primary challenge of the human condition: graduating from a troupe species with ling-refined tribal techniques for handling the problem individuals, to a noƶspheric global species successfully coping with with emergent problems due to mass ācivilizationalā effects.
True, although it might buy us time to get some shit fixed before they repopulate and start complaining about how things have improved.
Advocates genociding all authoritarians
Gets put in line for the solar express
Surprise!